Hello Parents! Just like that, we have officially completed our first full week of school!!! Mrs. Maldonado and I are so excited for the year ahead. We are going to be doing so many fun things this year so please continue to keep an eye out on our Classdojo.
We are continuing with theme 1 “Ready for school” and starting unit 2 titled “Making Friends”. BIG Idea: I will make friends at school. Knowledge Focus: Children learn the expectations, routines, and behaviors of school. Social-Emotional focus: cooperation. The theme vocabulary words include: friends, play and help. Math vocabulary words include: beside, on, in, under and between.
We will be learning the color yellow, square and number 2. We will be reading the books “Friends at School”, “A Splendid Friend Indeed” and “Annie, Bea and Chi Chi Dolores”. We will also be reading the “At the Apple Orchard” Scholastic weekly reader this week. This focuses on where apples grow and different colors of apples. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
For our STEM centers this week, we will be working together to bake an apple pie! I will be posting a sign up sheet looking for volunteers to help bring in different ingredients from our recipe as well as 1 parent volunteer! Unfortunately, due to time, our parent volunteer is asked to only stay for a 45 minute period. They will not be tasting the apple pie with us but will be helping to put all of the ingredients together!
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing the song “Jesus Loves Me” and Mrs. Maldonado will be teaching the children a new song! She will also continue to discuss creation, focusing on days 4 and 5. We will continue to recite our Johnny Appleseed prayer before snack, lunch and the remainder of September.
We will continue to discuss all things apples such as taking a deeper look inside an apple at our science table, watch apples decompose, plant apple seeds, discuss the three different color of apples, create another apple craft and bake an apple pie with one of our class parents! All of these fun activities will be displayed on our Classdojo. For the color yellow, we will be making a sunflower plate as our color craft and examine a sunflower head!
We will continue to discuss all things apples such as taking a deeper look inside an apple at our science table, watch apples decompose, plant apple seeds, discuss the three different color of apples, create another apple craft and bake an apple pie with one of our class parents! All of these fun activities will be displayed on our Classdojo. For the color yellow, we will be making a sunflower hand craft as our color craft and examine a sunflower head!
Specials:
Computers: Monday from 10:00 – 10:30
Gym: Tuesday from 9:15 – 9:45
Library: Thursday from 9:15 – 9:45
Art: Thursday from 10:00 – 10:30
I will be sending homework packets out on Monday which will be due that following Monday.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please reach out to me on our Class Dojo app or via email at [email protected]. All communications from me will be posted on Class Dojo. I will be posting more in-depth explanations of our weekly via blogs weekly. If you are reading this blog, send me a sunflower emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?